[ **up: [[Animals]] | [[Mammals]] | [[Rodents]] | [[Cricetidae (Family)]] | [[Lemmings]] | [[Myopus (Genus)]]** ] --- # Wood lemming (*Myopus schisticolor*) The wood lemming (*Myopus schisticolor*) is a species of [[Rodents|rodent]] in the family [[Cricetidae (Family)|Cricetidae]]. It belongs to the rodent subfamily [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae]]; it is a relative of the voles, lemmings, and muskrats. > It is found in the taiga biome of [[China]], [[Estonia]], [[Finland]], [[Mongolia]], [[Norway]], [[Russia]], and [[Sweden]].[^1] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]] - [[Placentals|Eutheria (Infraclass)]] - [[Rodents|Rodentia (Order)]] - [[Cricetidae (Family)]] - [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae (Subfamily)]] - *[[Myopus (Genus)]]* - *[[Wood lemming|Myopus schisticolor]]* <small>WOOD LEMMING</small> --- ## Description ### Sex determination #### XX or XY females, and XY males [^2] [^1]: ‘Wood lemming’, *Wikipedia*, last modified 10 January 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_lemming. [^2]: Frederic Veyrunes, et al. ‘[[Veyrunes, et al. 'A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse', 2010.|A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse]]’, *Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences*, vol. 277, issue 1684 (7 April 2010), p. 1050.